March 4, 2013 - Harvest Monday

Broccoli in February? Never!

Never say never.....

This photo, taken on September 30 last year, shows the broccoli "tree" I was trying to remove during fall garden cleanup. I had cut it back as far as I could, with the tools I had on hand at the time, but gave up on trying to dig it out as I had injured my ankle and it was too painful to use the shovel. Imagine my surprise last month when I found this................

I picked this little morsel on February 27. The broccoli tree lived through a very cold winter and is now producing side shoots! There are several more little buds forming, too. I won't be weighing these surprise harvests, but I will be eating them :-)

Daphne, I'll definitely be leaving my 2013 broccoli crop in, just as an experiment. I wonder how this plant will look in a couple of months! At least it's in a spot I don't need for new crops, right at the foot of the strawberry bed.

Our winters must be worse than yours or you have magic plants. My plants are nowhere near alive, mush less productive. No surprise there. I have no magic plants. Except maybe my tomato plants during growing season last year.

Let's chalk it up to magic plants. Actually, I've never left anything, other than carrots and spinach, in the garden to see if it would over winter. I always tried to get everything cleaned up before we headed south, so only the tomatoes and flowers ended up dying and needed spring cleanup. Now we aren't going south any more, so I'm not in quite such a hurry to pull out everything in sight. I sure will leave my broccoli in this year, even though Mr. Granny still hates it.

Yaye good to see you back Granny! We lost our broccoli. We planted them in the raised beds which all got ripped up for the makeover, only to find the 'wood guy' who was going to use that area didn't turn up. So I shall sit here imagining I'm eating yours! Ha! But point noted for our next crop we plant, so I shall put them somewhere they can sit over Winter and see if we have the same happen. ;)

Cloud, I munched it down raw, and it was sweet flavored, not strong at all. I found another overwintering one in the flower bed, but the side shoots are not as well formed on it. I'll let it be for a while and see what it does.